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Hi All, This evening is a bit different to our normal evenings, as well and being the last for 2017. Firstly, it starts at 7pm with nibbles and drinks – a bit of socializing before the main event. Secondly, all the images entered for this evening have already been entered …Continue reading →

Rules for submitting photo competition entries Committee has asked that we remind all Members to follow the rules when entering our competitions, especially the following: Entry Forms – All entries must be accompanied by completed entry forms. The Competition Secretary’s shouldn’t guess who you are or what category your images …Continue reading →

Stripes | Beginning with the letter K | Vanishing Point | Memorials | Wings | Symmetry | End Of Year Stripes 1. A long, straight region of a single colour. 2. A long narrow band of a different colour, composition, or texture from the surrounding surface or background 3. Pattern ~ …Continue reading →

An explanation by John Bellingham (with info borrowed from various internet sources) So, you’ve forked over at least $1000 (but probably $2000) for your first DSLR camera. You have more buttons, dials, and menus than you know what to do with, even after reading through the fat booklet that came …Continue reading →

H James Memorial Landscape Competition and Margaret Macdiarmid Memorial Landscape guide lines for competition. H Stanley James ARPS joined the Society shortly after its inception in 1937. His service to the Society and to photography in New Zealand, as exhibitor, lecturer, judge, and on committee were outstanding. He was president …Continue reading →

Gimp At the digital night we usually focus on Adobe manipulation programmes. For those of you who do not have Photoshop and maybe cannot afford to buy software there is an alternative for you and it is FREE. GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed …Continue reading →

SPEAKING ‘PHOTOGRAPHER’ – THE BASICS These are the terms you’ll her people using and sometimes you may not quite be sure of the proper meaning. We will include some each month in the aperture to help you speak the photographer lingo. Photography – the word photography comes from two old …Continue reading →

JULY –– SQUARE FORMAT – entry date June 10 It’s Hip to be Square! Using the square format encourages the eye to move around the frame in a circle. The rule-of-thirds becomes more or less irrelevant – a composition with the subject placed in the centre or close to one …Continue reading →

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Skills Night – change of venue

Our Skills Night is moving to a new location. It's held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month (Feb to Nov). It can involve meeting at a location for a specific purpose e.g. Sunset or meeting indoors for viewing video training and hands on practice. We have been offered the use of a private room to help cut club costs. The address will be available on the 11th April, our first club night in April.